bad installation ?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:28:05PM +0000, Owen Rees wrote:
>--On 10 March 2005 20:14 +0000 John Morrison (Cygwin) wrote:
>>Basically adding your user (using the domain flag if appropriate) to
>>the passwd and group files which is what the message attempts to help
>>the user to do.  It appears (judging from the number of times this
>>question isn't now appearing on the lists) to have worked for most
>>people, but I'm always looking for perfection ;)
>>
>>Hope this helps explain things,
>
>My system is not in the same domain as my login id, and I suspect that
>may make a difference.  One of the problems with saying "if
>appropriate" is that it assumes that the reader knows when it is
>appropriate, but if they did, they would probably not need to ask the
>question.
>
>Searching the mail archives turned up this in
><http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00642.html>:

As the above link suggests, this discussion is off topic for
cygwin-xfree.  Please move it to the main list.  You'll have a lot more
people to pick on than John Morrison in the main list.

I'm blocking this subject from further discussion here.

cgf